Should the 30 hours funding be stopped?

[Mouse]

I dont suppose that same person is regretting it , it won them an election - but the people who actually have to work out the logisticswill be having a nightmare!
I just wish the media would see it for what it is , on the one hand today they are talking about nursery schools being under threat due to the policy ...yet they still call it childcare rather than education. I wish someone much cleverer and legal savvy than me would challenge this under the fact that the same education should be fairly available to ALL regardless of background.

I've seen various references to the first 15 hours being for education and the second 15 for childcare. So all children are entitled to the 15 hours education, but only the children of working parents are entitled to the additional 15 hours childcare.

[Mouse]

I just can't see how it would be "policed" as the extra 15 hours are only for working parents - would we have to regularly see wages slips as proof that parent still has a job? Would we have to pay back funding if parent stopped working and didn't tell us and therefore no longer qualified. :

In one of the trials being carried out they are only giving the extra 15 hours to parents who work for certain employers. I guess then the employer knows who can claim it and who can't. I suppose that's one way of policing it, but then not fair for parents who don't work for one of those employers.

[mumofone]

Bbc are running another story on it, they seem to be almost weekly saying it's not feasible ,when do they eventually have to make a final decision....seems to be dragging on and on!!

[mama2three]

I've seen various references to the first 15 hours being for education and the second 15 for childcare. So all children are entitled to the 15 hours education, but only the children of working parents are entitled to the additional 15 hours childcare.

We are inspected and assessed based on our teaching. On how much progress the child is making. That is education , not childcare , regardless of what is said. there is no such thing as 'just childcare' , we wont be able to disregard the eyfs for the second 15 hours , it is all just policyspeak.

[Mouse]

We are inspected and assessed based on our teaching. On how much progress the child is making. That is education , not childcare , regardless of what is said. there is no such thing as 'just childcare' , we wont be able to disregard the eyfs for the second 15 hours , it is all just policyspeak.

I agree completely. I was just giving the 'justification' I had read for half the 3 & 4 year olds being forgotten about

One of my mums is already talking about using the 30 hours with me. How lovely if I was able to "teach" her child for 15 hours and only provide childcare for the other 15! I wonder how well that would go down with Ofsted. Of course, mum has failed to check that I will be offering the 30 hours. I reckon a few parents will be caught out when they assume they can have 30 hours free without actually checking whether or not her provider is going to offer it.